New Zealand School Of Dance On Stage In Auckland

New Zealand School Of Dance On Stage In Auckland

Students from the New Zealand School of Dance (NZSD) will be on stage in Auckland next week, performing in three shows as part of Tempo Dance Festival.

The students are training full-time at our national dance school to prepare for careers as professional dancers. Most of the students performing in Tempo are in the final year of two or three year qualifications in dance performance at the NZSD.

Third year student Thomas Bradley will be involved in all three shows, Y Chromosome, Tertiary Colours and Prime Cuts, as both a dancer and choreographer. At the 2010 Tempo Festival he was nominated for 'Best Choreography by an Emerging Artist' and 'Most Inspiring Performance' and won the award for 'Best Performance by a Male Artist'. Following further training at the NZSD this year and a recent internship with well-known Sydney Dance Company Thomas has even more to offer Auckland audiences and a stellar career ahead of him.

A highlight of the Y Chromosome performance will be the ballet solo Spring & Fall performed by Christopher Gerty. Christopher is preparing to represent New Zealand at the one of the world’s most prestigious ballet competitions, the Prix de Lausanne in Switzerland, in February 2012.

On 5 and 6 October the Tertiary Colours programme will feature dancers from a number of tertiary institutions around New Zealand. Students from the New Zealand School of Dance will perform in four of the works on the programme. Three of these have been choreographed by the students. The fourth, a duet choreographed by Victoria Colombus, was performed this week on TV One by Thomas Bradley and Zoë Dunwoodie. http://tvnz.co.nz/good-morning/s2011-e270911-tombradleyzoedunwoodie-video-4422508

In addition NZSD student Andrew Miller, who is presently on secondment with Southern Lights Dance Company, will be performing during Tempo. Andrew and the Christchurch based company have come to Auckland fresh from performing in the southern city’s Body Festival.

With many of its graduates reaching the heights of the dance world, the New Zealand School of Dance is internationally recognised as one of the southern hemisphere’s leading dance conservatoires. Performances by New Zealand School of Dance students give the public and future students an insight into the excellence fostered at the School.

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